well then that means you should support wealth tax?
I mean this guy is seriously the CEO of one of the largest tech companies on Earth. He sees that people hate surveillance and then thinks that by flaunting threats at people he can obscure the connection with surveillance and rich people, lol. He is like the Trump of the tech world.
Sounds like he wants the wealth tax to be so high that there is no “wealth” left. 'Cause no wealth means no mass surveillance.
That’s what he is advocating for . . Right? /s
We already have mass surveillance. Fuck this guy.
Tracking our phones, tracking all our internet activity, tracking our cars, tracking us in stores, tracking what we buy, tracking what we watch on TV… We’re already there.
That site is just Flock.
The level of personal tracking is absurd.
There’s a reason the supermarket wants you to use their app for “digital coupons”. There’s a reason they want you to scan inside the store.
As an added bonus, big-box retail has a natural immunity to external RF, which forces you to use their wifi, which can track you down to your position in a specific aisle, how much time you spend there, your path around the store, etc.
And then when you’re done, they know exactly what you bought because it’s linked to your store card (which is naturally linked to the app, which is tracking you around the store).
They know what cuts of meat you like just as much as they know what kind of fungal infection you have.
They know (roughly) what you decided not to get just as well as they know what you did get
They know how much time you spent calculating the best deal on paper towels (the planograms have been updated to reflect this…items that people spend a lot of time contemplating are no longer facing each other in the aisle…they are always on the same side of the aisle…you won’t find PT opposite TP, you won’t find dog food opposite cat food, etc…they can track your position in the aisle but not which way you face).
And that data is more valuable than the profits on the goods in your cart.
Just as one example.
A company designed for surveillance and named for surveillance devices in LOTR will cause surveillance.
Wealth tax will just make them slightly less unimaginably rich.
Off with his head already.
It’s him, it’s a threat, he’ll do it to recoup the money he’s paying in taxes.
Scumbag needs a lesson
how can humans be said to be advancing when we allow clear liabilities like this person to flourish?
Cool. Then we need that pronto. Isn’t that your company’s mission anyway?
Good. They are starting to threaten the people of the society in which they want to live. It won’t be long now until those people are forced to start thinking they are just a business, not saviours or overlords. Just selling shit to make a few bucks, nothing more, nothing less. Tick, tock…
I have not watched this interview, but I have never watched this man have a straight face, he is always high as fuck.
Nothing to see here, just planting new associations for the cultist, move along.
Mass surveillance = i don’t like that (bad)
Wealth tax = mass surveillance
Wealth tax = badSo we need to tax wealth so much that there is no money for surveillance. Got it.
You son of a bitch. I’m in.
Uhh that just gives the government more money for surveillance. You’ll get your surveillance either way, don’tcha worry.
Not necessarily. You tax these fuckers into the ground, and now they can’t pay to influence government like they do now. So we get back to an actual “of the people, by the people, for the people” government. Which means if the people don’t want surveillance, then it doesn’t happen.
Frankly, I trust a government minus corruption 10000x more than any profit driven corporation.
lmao why don’t you just audit everyone. lmao, it’s like they just want newer way to use drones to scan houses.
You all want it for the rich but what about you and your own unaccounted for items? What happens to some of you when your unaccounted items become objects that are supposed to reflect on your income, what then? repo or audit?
Lets think this through of what could happen to the common man. How many people are gonna get away with using gifting as an option and how many aren’t? How many of those that aren’t are going to be judged based on racial biases? How many times are they gonna use DHS alongside with this?
How much corruption with the technology will it take before we all start protests? I don’t see anything good from this.
I think that there needs to be people that can’t be bribed to do audits to rich people.
What if we start having more Luigi’s in society?
Anything stopping you?
I don’t have a cancer diagnosis. Hit me up when I have nothing to lose.
So you, I and everyone else are actually super okay with all that happens as long as you have a mid tier Xbox to rent games and some plastic filled Cheerios to eat.
Swell. Hard to blame the billionaires for treating us like dirt.
Well good news, the next Xbox is going to be ridiculously unaffordable.
People keep saying stuff like this, but it is a huge sacrifice and anyone who tries this now will be killed immediately, or end up prosecuted at best. Many still have loved ones to care for and a life to live. I don’t blame anyone for not going through with it.
Even if we “may not have much to lose soon,” there still may be other options before the people go this route. I personally at this time am not willing to go this route, especially since some progress is being made locally using other strategies.
Sooner or later well have nothing to lose.
Ohohohooo now I wanna increase it tenfold
